When on a short vacation in Brittany France, I passed by the site of Etel where a few old shipwrecks are lying alongside the shore of the river. I believe many photographers who know about the place have visited already because it sure allows for some fantastic images. For this session I opted mostly for the black and white variants because of artistical beauty with the subject.

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I've published some new images in the Nature Galleries. You can find updates in:
- Flowers from our garden
- Autumn 2006 impression
- Chatillon
- Forests and Trees : Misty Mornings

Also new updates in the Travel section:
- Vacation trip to Brittany in France 2006
- Vacation trip to Schotland 2006

As you can see I've decided to change the layout of the website (again). I need to change things quite a lot, in order to keep them fresh, clean or whatever other explanation there is for my constant need to changing things. This time I have opted for a kind of retro look using more subdued colours and tints, creating a kind of a classic old negative-photo-sticky book. Hope you like it, either way this allowed me to integrate the design of the journal blog you're now looking at with the rest of the site.

I'm enjoying a short holliday for the moment, hey it's the season for it right! So I will have some extra time to finish on some photographic work I had lying around here in the cupboard. I'm looking forward to putting some new stuff online during these days. Be sure to check out the site during the upcoming days and weeks for regular updates. You can always subscribe to my RSS feed as well to quickly see if something new is waiting for you

In the meantime I whish you all a Merry Christmas and of course already my best whishes for the next year. I hope for this year we can all elevate our level of thinking and emotions so we can eradicate as much violence and negative energy out there is the world. It's all just a matter of critical mass of positive thinking basically. I'll hope for that to happen this year... Cheers.

Today exposed-photography.com and gemty.com have been completely uncoupled and will exist further as 2 separate sites. All existing links to exposed.gemty.com will not function anymore. This means a lot of my images that have been cached by google will not work anymore. That's life...

As some of you have probably guessed, I have changed my provider space a week or 2 ago. This was accompanied by some period of unavailability for the time needed to get the DNS updated. Currently the site is served from a private server.
At this moment www.exposed-photography.com domain is hosted on the new server. Gemty.com is not yet switched yet due to some issues with the transferal process. But I hope to have that ironed out soon.
Sorry for any inconvenience but I hope the new server's speed will make up for it by enhancing the picture browsing.

Together with the site redesign some new Urban sites have made it online, these were a few places I visited during the last half of 2005 and beginning 2006.

You'll find the following new sites in the Urban section:

* La Chartreuse
* Volklinger Hutte [Germany]
* Anco
* Beeringen Charbonnages
* Wintercircus Gent
* Cinema Theatre Variete Jumet
* SFPO Boulogne Sur Mer [France]
* EDF Pont Sur Sambre [France]
* Another Car Graveyard
* Trainstation Montzen

In Belgium we have some nice cemeteries and also a some very big ones. Het Schoonselhof in Antwerpen is one of the biggest in Europe [I believe there is a bigger one in the north of Germany, but I forgot the name].
This cemetery is visited not only by the people visiting deceiced relatives and friends but also photographers. I have been there a few times since it's in the neighborhood and everytime I see someone wielding a camera while running around the "old" section.

The old section is the nicest in my opinions because it has very old graves dating back to the years 18xx. People who were buried at that time usualy were rich and/or famous and their graves are decarated by beautiful old sculptures or they simply have a big tombe.

I've decided to get creative on this with my camera and the results will come online soon in a separate gallery. The idea came from a trip we made to shoot EDF in France. On the voyage home we passed what looked like a cemetery with some old graves in a small village and decided to take a look and from there on...